Here's David and Carol (Sandy Chen's Mom and Dad) outside the world-famous dumpling restaurant DinTaiFung. As you can see from their expression, folks in Taiwan take their dumplings very seriously.
Oh, ignore the mascot...
Further proof: As soon as I sat down with Mr. & Mrs. Chen the server handed me this Laowai guide to Taiwanese soup dumplings. Little did they know I live just down the street from a soup dumpling shop back home...
The soup dumplings were indeed delicious, but by far my favourite dish was the taro dumplings we had for dessert.
The caption for this photo on Flickr: "You have no idea how sweet ass-crap-delicious this is..."